Tuesday, December 30, 2008

IMPORTANT: We added VP6 decoder in this release, so lots of "failed to play" videos should be playable now, BUT most of them will be laggy due to the capacity of iPhone CPU. We'll optimize the decoder in next beta release.

A controller for turning on/off iMobileCinema is released, for resolving the conflicts with Youtube Mobile, Megaupload, etc. The controller is a BossPrefs plug-in, and is published in our Cydia source. After turn on or turn off iMobileCinema in BossPrefs, you need refresh web page in Safari to take effect.

First beta release was in a hurry. So we decided to release a better beta version today.

Some live broadcast sites are using rtmp protocol to deliver videos, e.g., mtv.com, hulu.com. We'll try to support the protocol later. And playing embedded mp3, like singsbox.com, is a good idea and we'll try to support it too.

Thanks for the recommended websites in your comments, we are trying to support them as soon as we can.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Hi everyone, it's a long time since our last post. Good news, we got rid of the annoying UI part now.

And we added a new feature that displays the thumbnail picture if we can get one.

There is still a little problem in our current developing version, affects the stability. Anyway, we are going to fix it, and release a beta version of iMobileCinema for iPhone 2.x firmware support, in this week!

The answer is no. Even iMobileCinema acts like a Flash plug-in, but it can't play Flash contents, like flash games, flash ads. It only plays Flash Videos that embedded in a webpage.

iMobileCinema can't decode Flash files (.swf) due it's complexity. So we had to choose to decode Flash Videos (.flv) only. It decodes and plays the flash video in real-time while it's buffering. And we are trying to support all the video podcast websites.

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This is the official blog of iMobileCinema, the Safari plugin for playing flash videos online in iPhone. Since it get more and more attentions after the first release, so we decided to publish FAQ and news here.